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 Adam
Messages: 6859
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 14 December 2018 14:42 |
| Jay wrote on Fri, 14 December 2018 09:24 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 14 December 2018 09:06 |
Leon had another 2 points last night. Up to 39 pts in 32 games which is a 100 pt pace. When is it OK to say that he's not overpaid? Leon is not doing it like Maroon did that one year where he cleaned up the garbage from McDavid, he is doing some INSANE things and is right there with McDavid play wise.
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I actually agree with this. I think 29 gets a lot of unwarranted criticism here because of the way he plays. He is a methodical play maker - He doesn't look like he skates as hard as he can every second of every play. In Edmonton that's a recipe for a bulls eye on your back. I still think the comparison to a guy like Thornton is a good one - but Leon is a better goal scorer. Fantastic player and odds are only going to get better for the next few years.
I'm ok with his contract and I don't see it as a huge overpay for what he brings.
That said, I'm convinced the team butchered the signings of him and Mcdavid. If they would have signed 29 first they could have had him for ~7 and 97 for ~10.5. When they set the bar with McDavid first they gifted him the most obvious comparable in his own dressing room. 29 was never going to consider a salary that was half of what 97 got a month earlier.
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NO disrespect what so ever man but I think you dreaming if you think McDavid was getting 10.5 mill. Would I have loved it, absolutely? But McDavid took exactly the same percentage of the cap as Crosby did when he signed. Coincidence? Not a chance.
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From the sounds of it - McDavid's camp were looking for the Oilers to convince them of a number that made sense. The Oilers came in to the negotiation looking to roll over and let McDavid & Orr sniff their bellies.
McDavid wants to win, and he was taken care of for life on this contract no matter what - if the GM had not thrown overpays at Russell and Gryba in the lead-up to that discussion, if he had shown that he was going to try to convince everyone that they had to take discounts to play with McDavid and build a championship team, if he had presented that strategy to McDavid and his camp - there's no telling what would have happened.
Instead, it took McDavid and his representatives telling Chiarelli that they wouldn't take the absolute top dollar for the benefit of the team. He should thank them every day for that, because they wouldn't even be able to afford THIS roster if he had taken what he could have...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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